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Hayslett Group Brings Home
Seven Awards in PRSA Competition

ATLANTA, January 2009 - Hayslett Group LLC, an independent, Atlanta-based public relations firm, earned four Phoenix Awards from the Georgia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) for its work on behalf of Sumter Regional Hospital, the Georgia Department of Transportation and Surgery Center at Mt. Zion.

Hayslett Group received two Phoenix Awards for work on Sumter Regional Hospital's "Healthcare Heroes" campaign. The awards recognized a speech and an advertorial created for their local chamber of commerce following an EF-3 tornado that devastated the hospital on March 1, 2007. Two certificates of excellence for integrated communications and marketing consumer services were also awarded to Hayslett Group for the "I'm Going to Sumter" campaign.

In the integrated communications category, Hayslett Group, the Georgia Department of Transportation and partner agency McRae garnered a Phoenix Award for the Department's Georgia 511 travel information service. The campaign helped Georgia 511 reach the one-million call milestone in just ten months and over 1.5 million calls to date.

Hayslett Group accepted their fourth Phoenix Award for work on the Surgery Center at Mt. Zion's "Set Our Dreams Aflight" butterfly release and groundbreaking event. The commemorative event marked the beginning of construction on the future Spivey Station location, a 25,000 square foot facility with telesurgery capability in operating rooms, a completely wired patient waiting area with business office tools and internet café.

In the writing category, Hayslett Group was awarded a certificate of excellence for a bylined article written by Charlie Hayslett for Atlanta Hospital News.